Are you a mid-career pastor in a time of transition with your leadership and ministry?
Transitions are moments of disruption. And while disruption by definition is stressful and unsettling, change also provides opportunity to embrace another and more sustaining kind of life. We live at the mercy of our experiential Theology. To navigate change in a way that promotes thriving presupposes a personal theology that is healthy and life giving and a view of God who is present, active, communicating, and deeply loving. Our image of God affects profoundly how we live through our transitional moments in pastoral ministry.
Next Frontiers would like to invite you to apply to their 12-month program to help make this time of ministerial challenge into a time of thriving. The key features of this program include opportunities for reimagining your pastoral identity, fostering spiritual renewal, and engaging in meaningful relationship with veteran ministers. The overarching purpose of this program is to provide resources that will sustain ministers in the “long obedience” of their profession.
The intent of the program is not designed to offer educational experiences, which are tailored to a particular transition, but instead to offer a way of living life with God that generalizes to a variety of seasons of disruption and change. Specific transitions may include: Church planting, women clergy stepping into senior leadership, pastors serving multilingual or multiethnic churches, pastors moving from urban to rural ministry or vice versa, assignment of increasing ministry responsibilities, etc. Our focus is less on the type of transition and more on abiding in God during the transition.
Intrigued? Download the Program Brochure for more information.
Their first two cohort groups will begin in Georgia, 2021-22 and California, 2022-23. The application deadline for Georgia is June 1, 2021 and for California, June 1, 2022.
Visit the “Employment and Educational Opportunities” section of the Bulletin Board to find contact information and a link to the Application Packet.